The roles of task-specific forecasting experience and innate ability in understanding analyst forecasting performance

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 378-398

  Clement, Michael B ^a   Koonce, Lisa ^a   Lopez, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst characteristics; Analyst learning; Financial analysts; Forecast accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648970110     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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